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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>EZEKIEL</span>
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CHAPTER 11
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He sees, in vision, the destruction of Jerusalem and the captivity of the Jews—He  prophesies the latter-day gathering of Israel.
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Moreover</span> the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Spirit of; TG Guidance, Divine.">spirit</a> lifted me up, and brought me unto the <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/11/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 10: 19.">east</a> gate of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/11/1c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR leaders.">princes</a> of the people.
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Then said he unto me, Son of man, these <i>are</i> the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
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Which say, <i>It is</i> not near; let us build houses: this <i>city is</i> the caldron, and we <i>be</i> the flesh.
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&#182; Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Holy Ghost, Mission of.">Spirit</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/11/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Omniscience of.">know</a> the things that come into your <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/11/5c" mark="c" type="C" title="Ezek. 20: 32; TG Mind.">mind</a>, <i>every one of</i> them.
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Ye have multiplied your <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Blood, Shedding of.">slain</a> in this city, and ye have filled the streets thereof with the slain.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they <i>are</i> the flesh, and this <i>city is</i> the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
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Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into the hands of <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/9a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR foreigners.">strangers</a>, and will execute judgments among you.
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Ye shall <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 25: 21 (19-21); Jer. 39: 6; Jer. 52: 10.">fall</a> by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; and ye shall know that I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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This <i>city</i> shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; <i>but</i> I will judge you in the border of Israel:
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And ye shall know that I <i>am</i> the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: for ye have not walked in my statutes, neither executed my <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 5: 7.">judgments</a>, but have done after the <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/11/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Apostasy of Israel.">manners</a> of the <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/11/12c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Heathen.">heathen</a> that <i>are</i> round about you.
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&#182; And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died.  Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>!  wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel?
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Again the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, thy brethren, <i>even</i> thy brethren, <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/15a" mark="a" type="D" title="Septuagint and Syriac: thy fellow exiles.">the</a> men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, <i>are</i> they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: unto us is this land given in possession.
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Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/16a" mark="a" type="C" title="Isa. 8: 14; TG Refuge.">sanctuary</a> in the countries where they shall come.
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Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>; I will even <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Gathering of.">gather</a> you from the <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/11/17b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB peoples, or nations.">people</a>, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/11/17c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Land of.">land</a> of Israel.
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And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.
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And I will <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Gifts of.">give</a> them one <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/11/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Conversion.">heart</a>, and I will put a <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/11/19c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Man, New, Spiritually Reborn.">new</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="ezek/11/19d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Spirituality.">spirit</a> within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an <sup>e</sup><a href="ezek/11/19e" mark="e" type="A" title="2 Cor. 3: 3 (2-3).">heart</a> of flesh:
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That they may <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/20a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walk</a> in my statutes, and keep mine <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/11/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Ordinances.">ordinances</a>, and do them: and they shall be my <sup>c</sup><a href="ezek/11/20c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Mission of.">people</a>, and I will be their God.
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But <i>as for them</i> whose heart <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 28: 15 (15-68).">walketh</a> after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will <sup>b</sup><a href="ezek/11/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 7: 4.">recompense</a> their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord <span class='smallcaps'>God</span>.
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&#182; Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 1: 28.">glory</a> of the God of Israel <i>was</i> over them above.
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 43: 2 (1-6).">glory</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which <i>is</i> on the east side of the city.
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&#182; Afterwards the <sup>a</sup><a href="ezek/11/24a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Spirit of.">spirit</a> took me up, and brought me in a vision by the Spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity.  So the vision that I had seen went up from me.
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Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> had shewed me.
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